Article: Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context.(Book Review)

Article: Talking about God and talking about creation; ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2006 ;     499 words ...9004144773 Talking about God and talking about creation; Avicenna's and Thomas Aquinas' positions. Acar, Rahim ... set out to compare the positions of Arabic scholar Avicenna (980-1037) and Roman scholar Aquinas (1225-74 ...

Article: Avicenna's Position Concerning the Basis of the Divine ...
The Muslim World;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Avicenna maintains that God's creative action is similar ... necessity of nature.6 The fact that Avicenna assimilates God's creative action to natural ... explain away the passages in which Avicenna states that God's action is not like natural ...

Avicenna.(Reference Source)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 1993 ;     534 words ... ... dealing with the soul. Avicenna's interpretation of ... Neoplatonists. He saw God as emanating the universe ... it and is immortal. Avicenna was not an absolute pantheist ... exist independently of God. He fixed the classification ... lt;emph2> Avicenna, His Life and Works ...

Article: Avicenna
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      506 words ... ... dealing with the soul. Avicenna's interpretation of ... Neoplatonists. He saw God as emanating the universe ... it and is immortal. Avicenna was not an absolute pantheist ... exist independently of God. He fixed the classification ... See S. M. Afnan, Avicenna, His Life and Works ...

Avicenna.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 2000 ;     464 words ... ... dealing with the soul. Avicenna's interpretation of ... Neoplatonists. He saw God as emanating the universe ... it and is immortal. Avicenna was not an absolute pantheist ... exist independently of God. He fixed the classification ... Bibliography See S. M. Afnan, Avicenna, His Life and Works ...

Article: Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sina), with a ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... heavens to the presence of God. Peter Heath's book centres ... the Persian philosopher Avicenna ([dagger]1037). It begins with an outline of Avicenna's familiar theory of reason ... it bit by bit in terms of Avicenna's cosmology. Without ...

Article: Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect: Their ...
The Review of Metaphysics;  September 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... DAVIDSON, Herbert. Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect ... incorporeal substances below God and above the sublunar world ... In chapter l we see that Avicenna attributes even more causal ... the influence of Alfarabi and Avicenna on medieval Islamic, Jewish ...